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Top three headlines for November 18, 2012 on audio

The Top three news headlines for today, November 18th, 2012 are;

Crisis continues in Israel, but a truce may be in the works: A senior Palestinian official in Gaza says, “there are serious discussions to reach a truce.” Binyamin Netanyahu Israeli prime minister says Israel is prepared for ‘significant’ widening of Gaza operation as bombardment enters fifth day.

Xi Jinping, the 59-year-old “princeling” son of a former Politburo member and Vice Premier, was on Thursday unveiled as the new General Secretary of the Communist Party of China. Mr Xi and six other top leaders who will constitute the Party’s highest body, the Politburo Standing Committee, were presented as the faces of the party’s new generation of leaders, marking an end to a once in ten year transition process.

Former CIA Director General David Petraeus told the US Congress behind closed doors Friday that secret intelligence quickly indicated that the September 11 assault on the US consulate in Libya that killed the American ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans was a terrorist attack. Petraeus is currently embroiled in a CIA Investigation: CIA Looking Into Conduct Of the CIA’s ex-Chief’s affair with his biographer and girlfriend Paula Broadwell.

(Syria) The News: Tehran announces a summit in Pakistan including Turkey, Egypt and Iran on Syria

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The top news headlines for today, Sunday, November 11th 2012 are;

BBC director general George Entwistle resigns.

The BBC, reeling from revelations that Jimmy Savile was a paedophile, brought further problems on its head when news program, Newsnight, aired a mistaken allegation that a former senior politician sexually abused children. Entwistle admitted he had not known in advance about the Newsnight report, this just weeks after being accused of being too hands-off over a previous scandal involving the same program.

Israel fires warning shots into Syria.

The internal struggle within Syria’s borders spilled out into Israel today, causing several rounds to hit an Israeli military outpost. In response, the Israeli Defense Forces fired one strategically placed tank shell, as a warning shot, to let Syria know to keep their in-fighting within their own borders. It’s the first time Israel has fired into Syrian borders since 1973, during the Yom Kippur War.

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The Top three news headlines for today, Sunday, October 28, 2012 are;

US braced for massive storm as Hurricane Sandy nears.

More than 50 million people from the mid-Atlantic to New England braced for a potentially massive storm, as Hurricane Sandy churned northward on a collision course with another storm system that is sweeping in from the west.

British pop star Gary Glitter arrested.

Police investigating the sex abuse scandal surrounding late BBC children’s television host Jimmy Savile have arrested pop star Gary Glitter in connection with the case, British media said Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Metropolitan Police said they arrested a man in his 60s early Sunday morning at his London home, on suspicion of sexual offenses, and that he remains in custody in a London police station.

7.7 Earthquake strikes western coast of Canada.

An earthquake of 7.7 degrees on the Richter scale struck the west coast of Canada and Alaska. Strong quake led to generate a tsunami in North Columbia and Alaska.
According to the USGS, the quake struck just 19 kilometers deep in the Queen Charlotte Islands. A tsunami warning initially issued for Hawaii has been withdrawn.

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Top three headlines for October 7, 2012 on audio

It is reported areas of Homs and the Houla region came under heavy shelling as Syrian troops tried to retake them from rebel forces.

Turkey’s government said “aggressive action” against its territory by Syria’s military had become a serious threat to its national security and sought parliamentary approval for the deployment of Turkish troops beyond its borders.

Venezuela election set to be closest since Hugo Chávez took power.

Opinion polls suggest president will be re-elected with reduced majority, but challenger Henrique Capriles has genuine chance.

S.African strikers say police kill another miner.

South African police shot and killed a striking miner when they used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up a crowd of demonstrators gathered overnight on a hill near a Rustenburg area platinum mine, miners said on Friday.

(Syria) The News: U.S. Defense Secretary: worried about the breadth of the Syrian crisis and moving to neighboring countries

Syrian Arab News Agency: Unavailable

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Top three headlines for September 30, 2012 on audio

US military death toll in Afghanistan hits 2,000. Latest ‘insider attack’ at checkpoint kills two Americans and two Afghan soldiers, marking 2,000th US troop death of conflict.

Ancient market burns as fighting rages in Syria’s Aleppo. Hundreds of shops were burnt on Saturday as fighting between rebels and state forces in Syria’s largest city threatened to destroy a UNESCO world heritage site.

Ahmadinejad slams ‘nuclear intimidation.’ Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday accused some “hegemonic powers” of intimidating his country, citing military threats from Israel.

(Syria) The News: Deaths and injuries due to the explosion of car bombs in several areas of Baghdad

Syrian Arab News Agency: Teacher Ebrahimi and Feltman: the success of UN envoy’s mission depends on putting an end to the sheltering and training and arming terrorists .. Lifting the sanctions on the Syrian people much better than seeking to treat their effects

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Top three headlines for September 23, 2012 on audio

Pakistani minister offers reward to kill film-maker. The minister has offered $100,000 reward to anyone who kills the maker of an online video “Innocence of Muslims” which insults Islam.

Egypt’s New Leader Mohamed Morsi spells Out Terms for U.S.-Arab Ties. In an interview with the New York Times Morsi said the United States must fundamentally change its approach to the Arab world.

3 killed, 30 injured during protests in Libya’s Benghazi. The incident occurred when militias tried to disperse protesters in Benghazi. Protesters demanded that the government demobilize militias and form a national army and police.

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(Egypt) Al-Ahram Weekly: High total funds frozen
Switzerland for $ 700 million. Diplomatic source confirmed that 31 people in Egypt were affected by the decision to freeze their funds and property in Switzerland.

Iraqi security personnel inspect the site of a car bomb attack outside a French consular building in Nassiriya, 300 km (185 miles) south of Baghdad,September 9, 2012.Credit: REUTERS/Stringer Photo via Reuters 9/9/2012

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(Syria) The News: Palestinian food aid to Syria. Second aid convoy left the city of the West Bank city of Ramallah carrying food aid for Palestinian refugees affected by the crisis in Syria.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: called today for Tony Blair and George Bush to be taken to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for their role in the Iraq war. Photograph: Zak Hussein/PA Wire Photo from The Irish Times 9.2.2012

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